Haruki's 'Falling' is one of the most explicitly noirish entries to Nomadic Kids Republic, following a run of releases from Bvdub & Ian Hawgood, Lefolk, and offthesky. It's the work of one Boris Snauwaert from Ghent, Belgium, and paints doom-laden impressionistic scapes from an array of field recordings, acoustic instrumentation and electronic processing. These are richly detailed yet abstract, painterly arrangements, from the thick swipes of ghoulish subbass and shaded, creaking strings of 'Shrinking Cities' opening a chasm for the finely layered tonalities of 'When To Stumble And When To Fall', which challenges our depth perceptions with half-lit happenings causing us to to peer deeper into the murky drones. Again, 'A Little Bear Voice' shows visceral taste for bass reminding of Deathprod's forghorn blasts on 'Reference Frequencies', only softened with a smokier, minimal chamber jazz subtlety, shared in the harmonic blurs of closer 'Tall As Tails'. Fans of Bohren And Der Club Of Gore or The Haxan Cloak should investigate…
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Haruki's 'Falling' is one of the most explicitly noirish entries to Nomadic Kids Republic, following a run of releases from Bvdub & Ian Hawgood, Lefolk, and offthesky. It's the work of one Boris Snauwaert from Ghent, Belgium, and paints doom-laden impressionistic scapes from an array of field recordings, acoustic instrumentation and electronic processing. These are richly detailed yet abstract, painterly arrangements, from the thick swipes of ghoulish subbass and shaded, creaking strings of 'Shrinking Cities' opening a chasm for the finely layered tonalities of 'When To Stumble And When To Fall', which challenges our depth perceptions with half-lit happenings causing us to to peer deeper into the murky drones. Again, 'A Little Bear Voice' shows visceral taste for bass reminding of Deathprod's forghorn blasts on 'Reference Frequencies', only softened with a smokier, minimal chamber jazz subtlety, shared in the harmonic blurs of closer 'Tall As Tails'. Fans of Bohren And Der Club Of Gore or The Haxan Cloak should investigate…
Haruki's 'Falling' is one of the most explicitly noirish entries to Nomadic Kids Republic, following a run of releases from Bvdub & Ian Hawgood, Lefolk, and offthesky. It's the work of one Boris Snauwaert from Ghent, Belgium, and paints doom-laden impressionistic scapes from an array of field recordings, acoustic instrumentation and electronic processing. These are richly detailed yet abstract, painterly arrangements, from the thick swipes of ghoulish subbass and shaded, creaking strings of 'Shrinking Cities' opening a chasm for the finely layered tonalities of 'When To Stumble And When To Fall', which challenges our depth perceptions with half-lit happenings causing us to to peer deeper into the murky drones. Again, 'A Little Bear Voice' shows visceral taste for bass reminding of Deathprod's forghorn blasts on 'Reference Frequencies', only softened with a smokier, minimal chamber jazz subtlety, shared in the harmonic blurs of closer 'Tall As Tails'. Fans of Bohren And Der Club Of Gore or The Haxan Cloak should investigate…